Faultfinding and the conclusions we jump to

[Net Llama!]

On 06/04/2006 07:46 AM, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 6/4/06, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>> OK so here I am re-installing my box with Ubuntu Dapper and I'm noticing
>> that web browsing performance is incredibly slow. So I immediately blame
>> Ubuntu ...
> 
>>
>> So in the end my assumption is incorrect my new Ubuntu box is fine. It's
>> the ISP DNS1 that is porked.
>>
>> So after a judicious editing of the /etc/resolv.conf I'm fine
>>
> 
> As an aside, I noticed early on with Ubuntu that obtaining a lease
> from my simple router takes longer that with any other distro, but I
> never dug into it. On boot up, up to half of the total boot up time
> was waiting for a lease. I don't think it's quite that slow now, so
> maybe they fixed something along the way.

Perhaps a bug in the version of the dhcp client that they are shipping, 
or maybe a bug in the NIC driver for the kernel?  What other distros did 
you test with?


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